OWEN RIVER LODGE – CAN’T WAIT TO DO IT ALL AGAIN

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OWEN RIVER LODGE – CAN’T WAIT TO DO IT ALL AGAIN

Category:Fly Fishing / Recreational Research

Bottom line with any trip is whether you’d do it again. With Owen River Lodge the answer is yes and as soon as possible. We left home in Brisbane on October 1 frazzled and stressed and returned after five days at the lodge kind of chilled, man. Jeanine and I had spoiled ourselves with a


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AUG QTR 2015 – AUSTRALIAN JOBS PROFILE

Category:Labour Market,Labour Market 2015Tags : 

Summary : Signs of recovery detected in May Quarter Labour Force figures have evaporated. Year on Year figures to August Quarter and September monthly seasonal trends indicate jobs growth has slowed below the minimum required to sustain labour market growth and new jobless are sliding back into hidden unemployed. Publicly funded or regulated industries such


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AUSTRALIAN ELECTION PROFILES 1966 TO 1980

Category:Election Profiles,National 1966-80

PROJECT 1  – South Australia  1973 to 1977 PROJECT 2A, B & C – Any election you win is a good result and 1972 was no different for Gough Whitlam and the It’s Time campaign. In 1972, Whitlam was backed up by a then record spending campaign organised by his new National Campaign Director Mick Young,


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1983 strategy graph map

Demographic Strategy for Historic ALP Win

Category:Election Profiles

The historic election win by Bob Hawke in 1983 set Labor up for more than a decade of reformist Governments. Hawke won the election, but the policy work had been done over the previous five years by Opposition Leader Bill Hayden and this is the associated demographic targeting strategy prepared by Bill’s then research assistant


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MAY QTR 2015 – AUSTRALIAN JOB PROFILE

Category:Labour Market,Labour Market 2015

The Labour Market national summary figures look strong, but a detailed examination shows structural and demographic weaknesses. Many of the new jobs for men are part time, the figures for retail and hospitality are very soft and half of the jobs created are once again in the industries which tend to be ultimately funded or


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Roller Coaster for Grown ups

Category:Fly Fishing / Recreational Research

NIMMO BAY Canada. https://nimmobay.com/   Talk about an adrenalin rush. I’m strapped down tight in a Bell Jet helicopter two kilometres above the western coastline of British Columbia and I find myself hanging on to pretty much anything in the chopper to convince myself that flying through the air in a machine without wings is


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2015 NSW State Election Profile

Category:NSW Election 2015

The current study takes a close look at the demographic characteristics of New South Wales voters who supported Labor or the Coalition in 2015, and who swung to Labor or to the Coalition between 2011 and 2015. We also take our first look at the Greens since 2010. In this report we examine the demographic


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Wetting a line in Rugby Territory

Category:Fly Fishing / Recreational Research

John Black – Fly fishing Cape Town, South Africa If Rugby Union is indeed the sport for thugs played by gentlemen, then fly fishing in small streams for nervous trout would have to qualify as the recreational activity for mugs, albeit played by the same gentlemen. And did I mention gentlemen and their love of


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Australian Jobs profile for Feb Qtr. 2015

Category:Labour Market,Labour Market 2015

This report focuses on participation rates and the political and welfare links to participation rates across regions. It starts with tables showing the lowest and highest regional participation rates and the corresponding stereotypes for each. It continues with (green) charts based on the February Quarter 2015 Participation Rates and continues with relevant (red) charts from


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Labour Market – Feb Quarter 2015

Category:Labour Market,Labour Market 2015

Job losses in Northern NSW to impact State Poll According to the latest ABS labour market statistics more than 55,000 jobs have been lost in five NSW regions during the past 12 months. Comparing the Feb quarter 2014 with the Feb quarter 2015, these five regions – Richmond Tweed, Central West, Hunter Valley, Central Coast